21 Oct 2021

ERDC Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory developing new airfield matting system

The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) is leading a new developmental effort to design a lightweight airfield matting system that can be used to support aircraft for many missions where the AM2 is overdesigned and difficult to deploy.

12 Oct 2021

ERDC’s Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory tests two new rapidly deployable protection systems

Last month, researchers from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory unveiled two new systems that will provide additional protection to American servicemen and women in the field.

19 Apr 2017

Contingency Base Site Identification for the Tactical Environment support Key Resolve 2017

Researchers from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Construction Engineering

11 Apr 2016

Research to Reality: Airfield Damage Repair

Representatives for the U.S. Air Force visited ERDC in Vicksburg last week to look at and provide

17 Oct 2013

Force Protection Portal now available

The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory

1 Nov 2012

ERDC and West Point Partner to Re-Shape the Army

The Army has been building Barracks Huts (or B-Huts) to temporarily house military personnel the same way since WWII.

23 Oct 2012

Satellite communications link Forward Engineer Support Teams

No matter where they are deployed, each Forward Engineer Support Team (FEST) must be able to reachback and communicate with stateside and other deployed command and control units. The FESTs use a commercial-off-the-shelf capability, designed and developed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Reachback Operations Center (UROC) at ERDC in Vicksburg.

12 Oct 2012

Bio-Inspiration, Paddlefish, and Soldiers – What’s the Connection?

The scientific method known as “bio-inspiration” uses nature to inform technology, adapting attributes of plants and animals into technology that could be used by humans.

5 Oct 2012

ERDC lab supports winter ops for DOD missile defense site in Turkey

5 Oct. 2012ContactPublic Affairs Office601-634-3188HANOVER, N.H.--A team of researchers with ERDC’s

5 Oct 2012

GSL Is “Smashing” into Soldier Protection

Car or truck bombs are one of the serious threats our Soldiers face at combat outposts. Suicide attackers can use their vehicles to ram and possibly breach perimeter protective systems to detonate their deadly explosive cargo.